“I saw a little bit myself on the screen in so many of Burton’s characters. The weird, lovable outcast that just needed to be shown a little bit of love…
In a Venn diagram between “noir film” and “sun/moon Double Cancer signs” (that’s me!), the overlap is clear: We both HOTLY fetishize quasi-parasitic enmeshment!
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